Limestone And Yew tab by Matthew Connor

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Limestone and Yew by Matthew Connor
From his debut album, Farewell Motel
Tabbed by Norman


  Limestone and yew, and the things that I do.. When the nights seem to go on for days...
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  Dogwood and snow, all the places I go... But without ever going away...
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  The songs that I fight and the tears that I write.. On the wings of some dead seraphim...
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  Shadow and white, and the words I recite:   I wasn't good enough for him...
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  Nimbus and pine and the waltz of the Rhine.. How he loved when I spoke of the country..
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  But Virginia is grey, and the things that I say... Seem to shed every shred of their beauty...
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  Traver tine walls, promenades, and crest-falls... And a cup that's been filled past
the brim...
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  Tractor and plow, and it's clear to me now:  I wasn't good enough for him...
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(guitar interlude)
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 The lights wash away... in the river....
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 The planes wash away in the clouds...
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 It floods and it drains and then all that remains
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  Is a question... of what to do now.......
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  Granite and plume, and the bitter perfume.. Of the ladies who curse at the rain...
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  Primrose and haze, and the endless cafes.. Where the day stops to wait for a train...
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  A augmentedA copse on the hill, and the dust on the sill.. And a diary torn limb from limb
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  Limestone and yew, and it's suddenly true:   I wasn't good enough for him.
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